Leslie A. Hayes, MD, a family medicine practitioner who specializes in women’s health and addiction at El Centro Family Health in Española, New Mexico. She was recognized as a “Champion for Change” by the White House for her advocacy for addiction treatment and her leadership in preventing prescription drug abuse and heroin use. The study titled “Women and Opioids: Something Different Is Happening Here” by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, was published in The Lancet.
Women are getting hooked on opioid pain pills sooner than men, yet aren’t receiving needed treatment.
